Well to be fair, there’s a whole lot of speculation going on after they announce and update coming or this dlc. The difference with a game is they have a pre-order and that usually comes with extra content that one does not want to miss out on.
I’ve purchased on speculation before because developers HINT at stuff which leaves things quite vague and your mind fills in the blanks. Might not be old enough to remember but a lot of PS1 games would show cut scene graphics on the back of the game case… only for you to find out the game doesn’t look like that at all. We purchased Jupiter Strike based on speculation. We couldn’t try it out, back then you looked at the back of the box and speculated what it might be or took what you saw as the truth. By the way Jupiter Strike was more like After Burner but the pictures on the back looked entirely different.
I can’t remember what PD pitched the game as but I clearly remember GT6 and them going on about how you would be able to upload your own GPS data in to make a track. I never saw that in the game. I’ve been told it did finally make it into the game but I was long gone and felt duped by them.
I think it’s important for them to be 100% clear. I get building hype but now imagine everytime they release an update of cars, as silhouettes only, and you have a limited time frame to buy it to get one extra car. People will speculate all day long what those cars might be. If people didn’t figure it out for us I’d have no clue what cars are hidden in the shadows of their twitter/X update posts “new update coming”. I could only speculate.
**** I just watched some original official trailers for GT7 and noticed two things that jogged my memory. One said “FOR NEXT GEN” which implies PS5 only. The other was some dead leaves blowing across the track which implies Autumn Ring track and/or leaf debris blowing up when cars rip past. Unless it’s still coming after 3.5 years I’d say those two things were misleading, I don’t feel like watching more trailers and reading press to find more examples. Not to mention people in here speculate, you might read it and later in the week or month your brain accepts what some random person said in GT Planet as gospel.
Another thing, I noticed watching the trailers, and I know there was a thread about this somewhere, but the graphics look way better back then. I remember driving around the tracks thinking WHOAAAA! And then we had some update and, it was subtle, but it’s like the graphic quality looked like it got dumbed down a little. Probably because the PS4 could handle the “FOR NEXT GEN” game. Anyway, it’s all speculation